The internet is huge!!! I mean HUGE. It’s a vast populated city complete with shopping, banks, storage facilities, churches, cults, libraries, schools, and on and on.

I have my particular neighborhoods and shopping malls that I enjoy visiting. And I meet people. I don’t know their age or what they look like or even where they live in real life. We just cross over because of a particular shared interest and start chatting and making bonds.

What started these thoughts? I joined a scanlating group recently and I was surfing the members’ personal sites today. I found out that one of the members isn’t even in high school! I’ve been talking to her on the Himechan mailing list for awhile and had no idea. I knew she was young, but I was thinking high school or college. She’s my cousin’s age.

So then I just started thinking about the internet in general. It’s such a bizarre intangible. But it’s real. But it’s not. But it is. But it doesn’t exist, not like a real city. But you can do many things in it that you can do in a real city. And it does exist. It’s just not tangible, like buildings and people’s faces are tangible and understandable.

Internet-megopolis City.